7 October 1941 Part 3

7 October 1941 Changes in Channel Islands defences since 18 July 1941

[Scan 1137.jpg] Note, 7 October 1941. Changes on the Channel Islands compared with the position on 18 July 1941.

1) Alderney: Army Coastal Battery 461 deployed in two platoons. Newly deployed: one heavy antiaircraft battery (8.8 cm), three captured tanks. 2) Jersey: newly deployed and ready to fire, Army Coastal Batteries 468 and 467, each with three 21 cm mortars 18.

3) Guernsey: newly deployed and ready to fire, Army Coastal Battery 463 (four 15 cm guns 18); Army Coastal Batteries 464, 465 and 466, bracketed together with the notation “four 21 cm mortars 18”; Army Coastal Battery 472 (four French 22 cm guns); Army Coastal Battery 462 (four 15 cm guns 18); Fortress Signals Regiment Headquarters 15. [The bracketed figure is reproduced as printed; it differs from the nine mortars reported in the 9 October ammunition return.]

Original source image 1137.jpg — T-78 Roll 317. Changes in Channel Islands defences since 18 July 1941.

German Army High Command records, T-78 Roll 317. Supplied English translation T78_Roll_317_English_Translation.docx. Source images: 1137.jpg.